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Mathieu Hursin

mathieu.hursin@epfl.ch +41 21 693 33 77

EPFL SB IPHYS LRS
PH D3 455 (Bâtiment PH)
Station 3
1015 Lausanne

Current work

I'm currently heavily involved in the nuclear data community and with technical work towards the improvement of the latest version of the European library (JEFF). I'm leading an OECD/NEA subgroup in that direction. I'm also leading a Euratom project towards the production of multi-physics experimental data suitable for the validation of high-fidelity, high-resolution simulation tools.
After a doctoral thesis on the high-fidelity modeling of control rod ejection in a pressurized water reactor at the University of California at Berkeley, I did a short postdoc at the University of Michigan. I then spent the first 8 years of my career at the Paul Scherrer Institut. My research activities were mainly dedicated to developing methods for propagating uncertainties in deterministic calculation schemes used for modeling Swiss nuclear power plants.
Still under PSI contract, I moved to EPFL and more precisely to the Reactor Physics and Systems Behaviors (LRS) laboratory in 2014 to participate in the teaching tasks linked to the specialized Nuclear Engineering Master's degree and to develop the experimental aspects of my research activities.
I have been the deputy director of the LRS since 2019.
I obtained the title of Master of Teaching and Research in 2022. I have actively participated in the committee of the doctoral school of energy (EDEY) since 2022.
Since March 2023, I have been hired as a scientific collaborator at EPFL.

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Alexis Constantin De Aragao, Sara Maccario, Linyi Yang, Antonella Mele, Giovanni Nervi, Daniele Timpano, Hendrik Alexander Rommelmann, Milica Krstovic, Flavio Giovanni De Martino, Karl Sturm, Andry Guillaume Jean-Marie Monlon

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Adolfo Rais, Daniel Jerôme Siefman, Marianna Papadionysiou, Tom Mager

Courses

Physics of nuclear reactors

PHYS-443

In this course, one acquires an understanding of the basic neutronics interactions occurring in a nuclear fission reactor as well as the conditions for establishing and controlling a nuclear chain reaction.

Radiation and reactor experiments

PHYS-451

The reactor experiments course aims to introduce the students to radiation detection techniques and nuclear reactor experiments. The core of the course is the unique opportunity to conduct reactor experiments with the EPFL reactor CROCUS.